It's an all right place to visit, but I certainly wouldn't want to live there.
Today was supposed to be fairly quiet and uneventful, what with the wife away negotiating the cosplay-and-body-odor-heavy seas of the Anime Boston convention and little old me being left to my own devices here at our house on the hill.
Not that I'm unhappy with how things turned out. I could have done without the family hassles which manifested themselves and the dinnertime encounter with the Church of Latter-Day Saints' black-suited community outreach program. The visit from my brother was a nice surprise, though, especially as it included the gift of a stack of old Marvel comics from the 60's and 70's and a marathon sibling co-op session of the Xbox 360 version of Marvel: Ultimate Alliance.
The Pillows - Little Busters (from Little Busters, 1998; also available on Fooly Cooly OST 1: Addict, 2004) - I didn't accompany Maura to today's convention because that particular form of salinity lost its savor for me sometime in the early 1990's. It was a combination of popcult saturation fatigue (coupled with the ubiquitous shallow Japanophilia in the fan scene) and the simple fact that my personal tastes and prevailing trends in manga and anime have diverged a great deal over the years. (I'm an unreconstructed old school mecha jockey and space opera enthusiast.)
There are a lot of things of note out there at the moment, but very little that appeals to me personally with the exception of occasional works like Youtsuba&! or the not-that-recent, but wonderfully bizarre FLCL, which featured today's song (as well as several other gems) by the Japanese indie rock outfit The Pillows on its soundtrack.
Saturday, March 22, 2008
don't need the masters
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2 comments:
hi,
i'm coming by more regularly now since putting a link to here in the links column of my pages, and am enjoying your site hugely.
i remember firsthand all the 60's stuff but having been born in '54, i only know the '50s stuff from having perused it after it's day. i love the sheer obscurity of it all -i mean when you put up old wally wood, it's a panel i've never seen before. great stuff. the Archie Mighty stuff is *really* obscure. back then, i did 'stray' from the 'majors' on many occasions into forays into Charleton and American Comics Group, etc. but the Archie stuff just made me chuckle.
i appreciate it all here, the whole magilla. thanks.
i've always felt like anime was no different from any other popularized medium of entertainment. when the market becomes saturated with trash, it doesn't mean that it's no good anymore, it just means you have to be more alert to detect the truly valuable. ie Paranoia Agent or Ergo Proxy or Mushi-shi, all incredibly good anime that get lost in the shuffle. FLCL was the same way.
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